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With the third-largest economy in the world, Japan is home to thriving automotive, robotics, ICT, video game, transportation and heavy machinery industries.

Each year through the MIT-Japan Program, 30 to 40 MIT students intern and conduct research in Japanese companies, universities and research institutes. The MIT-Japan Hayashi Seed Fund facilitates dozens of research collaborations between MIT faculty and their Japanese counterparts. Our partners are leading Japanese companies, universities and research organizations.

Professor Nagahara will take you on a historical musical journey from the Meiji Era onward, touching on key Japanese themes such as culture, identity, social class, and war. We might be lucky enough to even get referece as far back as the Edo Era!
(p.s. the last 30 minutes (from 6:45pm onward) will be spent on logistics of obtaining visa and brining medications into Japan)

This optional lecture is sponsored by Harvard's Program on US-Japan Relations/Weatherhead Center for International Affairs: Wei-hsin Yu, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park will give a talk on "Employment Characteristics and Family Intentions in Japan" at Harvard Univeristy's Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street